house because i wanted to interview her and i hopped in the limo and i sat there in the back with her, and she had an assistant sitting in the front and she was giving instructions on what to do about this and what to do about that. and i thought, oh, my god, this is like a kathryn hepburn movie saying so definitively, this is what i need to do and i thought, oh, gosh, if i ever get to there, you know, how will i be? well, that was the first time but then we had a long relationship. because there were times when i was competing against her for interviews. what was that like, connie? competing against barbara walters for the get. what was that like?
well, connie, that s great. thank you so much for sharing this. you really bring back what were often the glory i mean, i don t know if barbara walters would call them the glory days because she was having to elbow her way to the top but the era of, you know, limousines and assistants and all that. she in 93 years, i thought about this, the ark of her life and her career and what she saw in journalism, i mean, is truly jaw dropping to go from the traditional reporter pounding the pavement to creating the view what was ground breaking in its format at that time. she really saw and did it all. you know what? she was a great producer. she had started a program back at nbc called not for women only. and it was very much like the view, but the network didn t actually really support it in many ways.
think that s another reason that people so connected with her. connie, i m going to let you go because speaking of the view, we re also joined by leasha ling who of course was a co-host on the view. thank you for joining us. it was great to talk to you tonight and hear your remembrances of barbara. but, now i want to get to lisa. i mean, i just found your conversation with connie one of my other idols talking about barbara just so moving. i mean we re talking about two women who have truly been the ultimate pioneers in our industry, and literally as connie talked about sometimes competing for the same the same interview. and you really had to do it at the time because there were so few women at that level in the business, but yet there was this profound mutual respect and a